Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 03:32:09 -0600 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Oh no... Message-ID: <20010307033209.A16010@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <3AA5EAE0.C9CEF366@quake.com.au>; from kaltorak@quake.com.au on Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:01:36PM %2B1100 References: <3AA5EAE0.C9CEF366@quake.com.au>
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Of course, this won't help you now, but it serves as a clever warning. Regardless of your backup procedure, it is always wise to make a backup copy of your boot sector. In fact, as well as on another disk, I believe you can store a copy on the disk in question itself. Between the MBR and the first partition, there is a section of null space. If it is big enough, one can use careful math to place a copy of the bootsector in the gap. A few seconds with dd and you would have a working system right now. :) Sorry, and good luck. On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:01:36PM +1100, Kal Torak wrote: > Hiyas... > > I kinda did a fdisk -BI on my main HDD by accident... It killed > all my partitions... I tried to get them back with sysinstall and > the live file system, but I cant mount them and stuff... > > Is there some way I can get my data back? I dont care so much about > the file systems.. But there are some files I would *LOVE* to get > back... > > Any pointers would be great... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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